I have long since given up on assuming that anyone wearing the hat or shirt of an American team is, in fact, a fan of said team. It is vaguely annoying.

I don't care about sport, but I do care about music, even when it's music I don't like, so I was really angry when a friend was wearing a KISS tshirt and couldn't even name two songs by them and was all "I just like the print". My head exploded. Then I got down off my high horse and tried to focus on ponies...

He could have been referring to the fact that the Braves appear to have shored up their pitching rotation for this season, which is the way they won all those division titles through the 80's and 90's.

Or he could have been intimadated by you and said the most bland, inoffensive thing he could.

It is total fun to pretend to be a fan of the same team and say something like "Bro!!! Go [team name]! Hey don't you think they should trade [player name]?"

An American colleague insisted that he was an All Blacks fan, and wanted me to tape the entire season and send it to him. I couldn't comply (not having any recording device other than MySky), but I decided to test him by giving him a Silver Ferns T-Shirt. He wore it with pride for several days before departing for home.

I think the 'sharing' is meant to signify the unisexness of the chain? Or something? It works if you pronounce 'shearing' and 'sharing' the same, which is supposed to be happening amongst Teh Youth. (Did we have some sort of New Zealand accent/pronunciation thread here at some point? It rings a bell.)

I don't care about sport, but I do care about music, even when it's music I don't like, so I was really angry when a friend was wearing a KISS tshirt and couldn't even name two songs by them and was all "I just like the print".

Yes. This. Bands do not exist so you people can plaster them all over your chest because you 'like the print', by hokey! Show some dedication to something you *actually like*!

The Yellow Pages offers up a goldmine of bad hair puns: Hairforce in Point Chevalier, Hairport in New Lynn, Mane Event in Te Atatu, (more disturbing, really, this one) Scissorhands in Henderson... that's just West Auckland, obviously.